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This introduction situates the recent boom of Latin American road movies in its cinematographic context and provides a definition of the genre which takes into account the specificities of Latin American cinema. The new concept of the counter-road movie is proposed, and the genre’s ambivalent relationships with modernity are commented upon from a Latin American perspective.
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Lie, N. (2017). Introduction. In: The Latin American (Counter-) Road Movie and Ambivalent Modernity. New Directions in Latino American Cultures. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-45138-1_1
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